Booklist on Southern and American Food:


Brown, Fred and Smith, Sherri M.L. The Best of Georgia Farms: Cookbook and Tour Book. Georgia Department of Agriculture, 1998.

Egerton, John. Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993.

Dabney, Joseph E. Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread and Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking. Nashville: Cumberland House, 1998.

Darden, Norma Jean and Darden, Carole. Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine: Recipes and Reminiscences of a Family. New York: Harlem Moon Publishers, 1994.

Edge, John T. Fried Chicken: An American Story. New York: Putnam and Sons, 2004.

Edge, John T. A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South. New York: Berkeley Publishing, 1999

Egerton, John, editor. Corn Bread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food Writing. Southern Foodways Alliance and University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Elie, Lolis E. editor. Corn Bread Nation 2: The United States of Barbecue Southern Foodways Alliance and University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Ferris, Marci Cohen. Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2005.

Fowler, Damon Lee. Damon Lee Fowler’s New Southern Kitchen: Traditional Flavors for Contemporary Cooks. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

Grovner, Yvonne J., Bailey, Cornelia Walker and Bill, Doc. The Foods of the Barrier Islands. Sapelo Island, Georgia, 2007.

Lewis, Edna and Peacock, Scott. The Gift of Southern Cooking. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2003.

Lundy, Ronni, editor. Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South. Southern Foodways Alliance and University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Reed, Dale V. and Reed, John S., editors. Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing. Southern Foodways Alliance and University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Willis, Virginia. Bon Appetit, Y’all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2008.

Woods, Marvin and Willis, Virginia. Home Cooking: Everyday Southern Cuisine With a Fresh Twist. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 2004.


Food Resources

Booklist on Southern and American food


Film list on American food


Overview on Georgia “Foodways” from the New Georgia Encyclopedia